Birthday party food: Don’t let kids choose these

Birthday food for kids: Restaurant foods to avoid at your son’s or daughter’s birthday party.

Celebrate Johnny Appleseed with great apple desserts

If you feel like whipping up a delicious apple dessert to honor Johnny Appleseed–or just to treat family and friends–check out our fabulous apple desserts.

Vegetarian recipes: Healthy party food

Here’s some healthy party food–a great pasta recipe to serve at any dinner party–and especially if you’re entertaining friends who are vegetarians.

Pizza party: Easy party for grown-ups and kids

Combine a fun activity with a delicious and inexpensive dinner that everyone will enjoy.
Here’s an easy party idea: make-your-own-pizzas.
First, decide if you want ready-to-serve crusts or crusts that may need pre-baking. (Individual ready-to-serve pizza crusts are 8” in diameter.)
Next, select the toppings you’ll serve. According to FoodTec Solutions, a restaurant consulting firm in Needham, Massachusetts, […]

How to hard boil an egg

For many moms, decorating for Easter begins with one kitchen technique: How to hard boil an egg.
Interestingly, while 80% of us think we know how to hard boil an egg, it turns out that many of us (including me!) haven’t been doing it right. Here’s step-by-step advice from the American Egg Board. I can’t wait […]

Farmers markets: Make food for parties delicious, affordable

Most retail stores are already decorated for the Christmas holidays.
But Fall is upon us for another six weeks, and entertaining as the weather gets cooler is one of the great delights of the year.
Take advantage of the seasonal fruits and vegetables that are grown near you make your Fall dinner parties more distinctive, delicious, and […]

An OMG chocolate dessert

I absolutely love watching food videos. With varying degrees of success, I sometimes try to duplicate dishes that invariably turn out to be harder to prepare than they look.
I won’t be trying this one! It shows the creation of a chocolate dessert served at New York’s Del Posto, whose owners are restaurant icons Mario Batali, […]

Family Day: A warm holiday that can benefit every family

Family Day is a fairly new holiday, celebrated on the fourth Monday of September. This year, it falls on September 27th.
The idea is simple: Have dinner as a family at least five nights a week, to slash the risk of your kids’ using tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs.
According to research from the National Center on […]

Fruit crisps: Best dessert recipes for entertaining

Fruit crisps are among our favorite recipes for entertaining. Sure, they contain butter and sugar. But even a small serving of luscious, warm apples, blueberries, plums, pears, or nectarines under a crunchy blanket…

Labor Day Party barbecued burger inspiration

Yesterday, the Seattle Times ran a feature about fancy new versions of burgers now served at area bars. As in many other locations, the bar burgers in Seattle have gone haute.
Here, taken from reporter Tan Vinh’s round-up, are some of the area’s gourmet bar burgers.
We think they offer great suggestions on more items to include […]

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